There are the people that make you want to get on Facebook everyday — aka the people you stalk daily. And then there are the people that make you want to get off Facebook, deactivate your account, and revive your old Myspace page (just kidding… unless your a pedophile).

MCV has surveyed its fellow video game professionals about their annual salaries in order to come up with an average wage for each facet of the industry in 2010. The median average for the US is approximately $51K. For a full breakdown of how much each individual profession will average this year in salary, check out the list by profession.

Officials say the disaster has killed between 100,000 to 200,000 people and the Red Cross estimates some 3 million people have been affected. To date, the United States has delivered 1.4 million bottles of water, 700,000 meals and 22,000 pounds of medical equipment, which are being disbursed among some 100 distribution sites

Once again the music industry has come out with disappointing results for physical music sales, which they blame entirely on file-sharing. What they failed to mention though, is that their findings show that music pirates are buying more digital music than the average music consumer.

Leslie Chisolm's family of six includes four boys, so careful meal planning is essential. The Friendswood, Texas, mom now makes meal plans for the entire year. Chisolm says having a plan has cut her grocery bill by more than half.

Microsoft has admitted that it was aware of the flaw in Internet Explorer a few months before it was used against the 33 companies in the recent Chinese attacks. One security researcher believes that a faster patch turnaround may have prevented the particular attacks Google and others saw.

Paul Larson got screwed when a developer who promised to build a subdivision around his Everett home left a mess full of sinkholes and ruptured septic lines. So Larson took revenge by spray painting his home rather than take him to court.

Obama's proposals to crack down on Wall Street signal a somewhat new approach to financial reform -- and a very new approach to politics and governing: more populist, more confrontational, less deferential to Congress, less eager for common ground.

A muscled man emerges from a volcano. His right arm holds a baby aloft toward the West, his left arm pulls a scantily clad woman behind him. "This woman [in the statue], she is completely subjugated to man. It's the man making the decisions. It's the man as protector, and that doesn't fit with the African reality," said historian Penda Mbow.

So what's an Appetitie for Destruction cloud look like? We love the big NIGHTRAIN running straight through the middle, and the smaller cluster of "sweet," "honey" and "mine." So much to peruse: "JUNGLE" big, next to a small "feelin'" and a smaller "Michelle." You can practically hear Axl Rose yowl the words in the cloud.

While the U.S. economy struggles, one form of employment is on the rise: Temporary jobs. In December, the country lost 85,000 jobs overall, but added 47,000 temp positions, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Increasingly America relies on these contingent employees — or "disposable workers," as BusinessWeek put it in a recent cover story.

Gimme a Whopper, fries and a beer. Those words are no longer wishful thinking. Friday, Burger King will unveil plans to sell beer and burgers at a Whopper Bar a new BK concept to compete with casual dining restaurants in Miami Beach's tourist-heavy...

The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology has just published a very nice paper showing how the details of protist evolution "dispel the myths of intelligent design," and in doing so, refute the claims of ID creationists who insist on invoking supernatural explanations to account for observable phenomena.

Burj Khalifa, formerly known as Burj Dubai, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m. The design incorporates ideas from traditional Islamic architecture, while the open petals of a desert flower were the inspiration for the tower's base.